Sunday, June 28, 2015

The card base is white card stock, sized at 5 1/2"x4 1/4." I cut a white mat at 5 3/8"x4 1/4." I then used my scoring board to add four scored lines to the left side.

The boat, water, heart, and sentiment are all stamps from Paper Smooches. The boat is stamped on white card stock, then fussy cut out and colored in. The waves are stamped using the faded jeans Distress Marker by Tim Holtz. I then cut them out at the top and bottom. I added a little slit, following the waves, in the middle and added my boat. The heart is stamped in barn door Distress Ink. I finished it off with the sentiment. The boat, heart, and waves are all from the Wicked Nauticool set and the sentiment is from the Word Up set.

The girl is from SVG Cutting Files. She is called Chibi Girl Reading, I sized her to fit in the opening of the bookmark, which is a 2" width. I used the print then cut feature of the Cricut Explore to print her out, then cut her. I did this to eliminate a lot of layers so that the bookmark wouldn't be too thick. I hid her face before doing anything, and after she was cut I used a face stamp from Peachy Keen Stamps. This one is from the Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The card itself is from the "Pack Your Bags" cartridge. It cuts the card base and the stamp shape with a lobster silhouette inside. I the cut the lobster to fit over the silhouette. The card was cut at 5 1/2" wide. The lobster was cut at 3.08" and I adhered it with foam tape. I also did not cut the eyes so I could add some goggle eyes.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" and made with grey card stock. I cut a dark blue mat at 5 3/8"x4 1/8" and a mat from the gear patterned card stock at 5 1/8"x3 7/8." The cog-shaped mat on which I put the robot, is from the "Elegant Edges" cartridge, cut at 4 1/2." I embossed the white part of the mat with the Tim Holtz embossing folder called Riveted Metal.

The robot is from SVG Cutting Files. It is called, Sickly Robot. I hid the face and cut off the water bottle so that I could make it work for a birthday card. I adhered the head with foam tape. They eyes and all blue parts are covered with glossy accents. I added some gears by Tim Holtz as a little added accent.

On the inside I cut another piece of dark blue card stock at 5"x3 3/4." I also cut some gear patterned card stock at 4 7/8"x3 5/8." The cog-shaped mat is again from "Elegant Edges" and this one is cut at 3 1/2."

Thursday, June 11, 2015

I have been so busy with my summer class that I have not really had much time to craft. Well, today my class was shortened due to a medical problem with my instructor's family. All we did today was our crayfish dissection and then we got to leave, so I decided to use some of that spare time to craft.

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" and made of grey card stock. I cut some light blue card stock at 5 1/4"x4." I used a Darice embossing folder on the blue card stock, it is called Beach Waves. I cut a strip of kraft card stock and covered it with copper glitter for the sand.

The sign is from the Cricut cartridge "H2O." I used the hide contour feature to hide the words on the sign. I stamped the sentiment on the sign, it is three different stamps from Paper Smooches. The "have a" is from the Blossoming Buds set, the "swell" is from the Surf and Turf set, and the "birthday" is from the Sentiment Sampler set.

All the little sea creatures are from the Surf and Turf set by Paper Smooches. I stamped them on white card stock, colored them in, cut them out, and adhered them to the card.

Saturday, June 06, 2015

I made two Father's Day cards today, but with the same image and layout.

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" and made of black card stock. I cut some blue star patterned card stock at 5 3/8"x4 1/8." The red wavy strip is 1 1/2"x3 3/4." The black mat is 3 3/4"x3 1/2" and the white mat is 3 5/8"x3 3/8." I embossed the white mat using the Assorted Stars embossing folder by Darice.

Underdog is an SVG that I got on a blog hop from SVG Cutting Files. He was cut at 3 1/4." I used foam tape to adhere his fist and head for a little dimension. His nose and eyes are covered in glossy accents.

The comic book burst in the corner is from the digital Cricut set called "Crash! Boom! Pow!" I used the print & cut feature since it was so small, 1 1/2."

The red mat on the inside of the card is 5 3/8"x4 1/8." The black mat is 4 3/8"x3 1/8" and the white mat is 4 1/4"x3." The sentiment is from Fiskars, I don't know what set, I just found it in my stash.

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

The pen, ink spot, and sentiment "hi" are all stamps from Paper Smooches, the Just a Note set. I stamped the "hi" first, then extended the line on the left with a black pen. I then used part of the ink spot stamp to finish off the line.

The pen was stamped on a piece of light grey card stock. I then cut it out and adhered it to the card. The nib was adhered right the card base, but I used a double layer of foam tape on the top end of the pen for some dimension.